Stan Holford
Stan belongs to: The Diving Centre Ltd
Stan became fascinated with diving from an early age from reading stories about the frogmen. He started The Diving Centre Ltd in 1959.
Stan was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 7 November 2005. The interview took place at the Interviewee's living room and lasted 1 hour, 27 minutes and 45 seconds.
Diving in the North Sea
"The north sea can offer, as per when I say the north sea I mean the northern hemisphere, it, it has to offer what the southern hemisphere has not got"
The north sea can offer, as per when I say the north sea I mean the northern hemisphere, it, it has to offer what the southern hemisphere has not got. It’s got like seasons underneath the water and I may add the word ‘season’ is in brackets because I don’t know what the environment is down there, I know just how it affects a diver, i.e. in what we class as the winter months up here, you can get beautiful visibility in the North Sea, and put it down to the coldness of the water, that the plankton is non-existent, to in May the water starts heating up, very slightly, I may add, in the North Sea but slightly where the plankton becomes progressively more visible in the water so the visibility goes.
But there’s, there’s times in the North Sea where as a diver we class it as, well, it’s like lemonade- in other words it’s crystal clear. Some people say it’s like gin, but they’re probably the alcoholic type of diver- we’ll stick to the lemonade. There again, in the winter you can be underneath the water and it looks like a graveyard, there’s nothing moving whatsoever, and then come into May when it starts heating up again and you start seeing the crab, the lobsters, the shellfish.
Stan has 19 memories in the memorynet:
Stan's memories with a Lifestyles theme:
Starting diving- Starting The Diving Centre
Diving in Malta- Commercial diving
- Trail-a-boats
- The Lobster Pot
- Waterskiing the English Channel
Stan's other memories:
This memory has these themes:
Environment | The North East
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